So, you have installed Windows. Now you have the difficult task of reinstalling and customizing, Microsoft Office, all of your third party software, such as, Adobe Reader, Photoshop, Virus protection, your printer drivers, etc, etc. This all takes a lot of time and effort, especially if you happen to have lost the disk that came with your printer that included the printer drivers. Even worse, you often find that the disk that came with your printer does not have the necessary Windows XP/2000 drivers.
So, reestablishing a Windows system is a royal pain in the ass. In contrast, if you are satisfied with only partially accelerated video drivers, reestablishing a Novelle SuSE 10.0, is pretty much all done in 30 or 40 minutes. However, if, for example, you have an ATI video card and wish to install the fully accelerated ATI drivers, this may take you forever, as the installation seems to have been deliberately sabotaged.
On occasions, getting Windows back to the way it was, has taken all day (and sometimes longer). When people tell you how easy Windows is to install, they as lying by omission, as they omit to tell you that the install is just the beginning of reestablishing a Windows system.
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Cloning, saves you the need to reinstall and customize all of your third party software and drivers, as cloning saves your system as is.
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HowTo CLONE WINDOWS XP/2000 INSTALLATIONS
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 22, 2006 10:29 AMHOWTO CLONE WINDOWS XP/2000
INSTALLATIONS FROM LINUX (BACK-UPS).
A guide to cloning (for backing-up, or just duplicating) your XP/2000 installations using Linux.
This will save you a lot of time next time you have to reinstall Windows.
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The reason that this is so useful, is because:
So, you have installed Windows. Now you have the difficult task of reinstalling and customizing, Microsoft Office, all of your third party software, such as, Adobe Reader, Photoshop, Virus protection, your printer drivers, etc, etc. This all takes a lot of time and effort, especially if you happen to have lost the disk that came with your printer that included the printer drivers. Even worse, you often find that the disk that came with your printer does not have the necessary Windows XP/2000 drivers.
So, reestablishing a Windows system is a royal pain in the ass. In contrast, if you are satisfied with only partially accelerated video drivers, reestablishing a Novelle SuSE 10.0, is pretty much all done in 30 or 40 minutes. However, if, for example, you have an ATI video card and wish to install the fully accelerated ATI drivers, this may take you forever, as the installation seems to have been deliberately sabotaged.
On occasions, getting Windows back to the way it was, has taken all day (and sometimes longer). When people tell you how easy Windows is to install, they as lying by omission, as they omit to tell you that the install is just the beginning of reestablishing a Windows system.
Quote is from: <a href="http://linux.coconia.net/addingXP.htm" title="coconia.net">http://linux.coconia.net/addingXP.htm</a coconia.net>
Cloning, saves you the need to reinstall and customize all of your third party software and drivers, as cloning saves your system as is.
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